Yes. Once of the sweetest girls ever came to pick me up. She’s a model and only comes home (to work with us) during the down season.

Keep her the hell away from Sean’s penis.

I think I might go to the gas station for ice for the butchered birds. Otherwise I’ll have to keep bringing each one into the house as I work, which seems really inefficient with all the cleanup and boot on-offs it’d take. So there’s my Black Friday shopping plans.

I’ve been thinking about Gavin’s statement that Americans say “Uh-huh” in response to “Thank You”. I wonder if this is just a minimizing perceived indebtedness rather than rude behavior, similar to saying “de nada” in spic (it is nothing).

I typically say “you bet” or “anytime” as much as I say “you are welcome”.

“…costs $300 to move a 40-foot container from Rotterdam to Shanghai, which is barely enough to cover the cost of fuel, handling, and Suez Canal fees. Here’s some more context. Let’s say that you want to travel for a year; it’s cheaper to put your personal belongings in a shipping container as it sails around the world than to keep it at a local mini-storage facility.”

I don’t watch the credits, but I research the actors and actresses I like. I watched the Godfather and Godfather II last night when the football was boring or in commercials. Ignore III, but you really should see one and two, cARin…

Finally made it over the mountains and home just as the snow is starting to come down heavily.

The police have the main road blocked off, but I was able to cut through the Albertson’s parking lot to get home. My old apartment that I lived in until August is across the street from the Planned Parenthood.

We’re celebrating T-day today, so I’m facing three hours of mom helpfully offering suggestions on how to cook the frozen turkey breast, without her so much as glancing at the instructions printed on the package.

And apparently, Stove Top dressing shouldn’t be made on the stove top.

Thanks for the beverage, roamy. I’m glad your friend’s daughter is on the right track, but that can actually be a dangerous time–leaving the “bubble” of rehab for the outside world. It’s good that she has a place to go for a bit of a transition.

Black Friday at The Club is so mellow. I have a Member that I want to punch in the face. She’s a close talker. A low talker. Can’t find anything in front of her face. I help her multiple times a day/week. SHE WRITES CHECKS AND SHE’S NEVER PREPARED AT POS. (Point of sale)

8 birds in the freezer. I got my time down from 60 minutes to 38. Discoveries today included:

1) You can pluck an unscalded chicken, but you’re likely to tear the skin.
b) Skinning a plucked chicken is much easier than skinning a full-feathered bird. Even if you tore the skin a bit.
gamma) The part of a chicken that clucks is not in the head.
7) Chicken wings are NOT WORTH SAVING.
e) Death rattle. Always. I either never got the carotid just right or it doesn’t matter.

Also my back is a giant web of pain. Separating joints and eviscerating the birds is hard work.

Leon, my grammo would set up a pot of water over a fire outside. Big pot. She would do this Twist, Spin, and Yank motion and the beheaded chickens would run until they dropped. Then she’d put them in the pot to scald. (I still can’t believe I’m not a vegan)

Hello darkness my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of celery

Did anybody fire anybody else from their gig as their personal shopper after it became clear that they weren’t going to stop buying bondage gear no matter how clearly it was explained that they weren’t able to wear that stuff to work today?

What’s anybody paying for gas? I keep seeing stories about “record low” gas prices, but at Safeway today, it was $2.35.
That’s in the PNW.

Safeway today looked like it had been hit by a bomb. Every department but produce was in complete disarray. Looked like last-minute shoppers had ravaged the place and the staff had not had enough time to re-assemble the store…

I asked twice today if I needed to come in early tomorrow for signs. Crickets. GM has my cell and Dan’s cell. He calls both of us in when he realizes he FUBAR’d a schedule. Scheduled at 8. We open at 7. I’m guessing panic text at 5. $20 way of saying g’night.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It’s a genuine problem, you won’t try
To derp it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by

I’ve decided to boycott xmas this year. As it a holiday designed to prop up the end of year “bottom line” of the patriarchal heteronormative capitalist oligarchs at the expense of the oppressed prolatariet.

That, and I’m broke…

Christmas music is being broadcast on my radio…ugh (silver bells)

Kill me now.. (kill me now)
Kill me now.. (kill me now)
Its christmas time in the… (oh dear god I hate spending money on people I only see once a year and normally wouldn’t even look at it in life, cept I made a freaking baby with thier cousin so now I’m “family”…)